Is there any truth to the reports that India's Reliance Communications is seeking to buy Capgemini?

There's a journalist in India, from the Economic Times, who loves this kind of story. It's the third time he has written about us talking with an Indian company. I don't know why he has a Capgemini obsession.

The thing is, Reliance closed a major alliance with Accenture. So if there's one Indian company that would never even talk to us, it's Reliance. The guy is not aware.

You have been working hard to get your outsourcing contract with Schneider Electric (SCHN.PA) on the right track. Where did that deal go wrong, and what are you doing to fix it? It was a long process of renegotiation that was closed on Feb. 8.

The initial contract was flawed. They had one obsession, which was building a globally integrated system, based on nearly every module of SAP's (SAP) software, to create the backbone of their company. That we knew.

But it's a company with many baronies, and when we tried to build the system in order to overcome the resistance of some of their baronies, we had to design ... more.

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